Engage Your Audience with BYOD
Looking for a way to involve your audience using BYOD without requiring them to download an app? There are a variety of web-based tools that you can incorporate into your meetings and presentations that allow your audience to participate using any web-enabled device, such as their smartphone or laptop. Here are some of the most innovative products for enhancing your presentations in a unique and creative way!
Top 7 Web-Based Tools for Interactive Presentations
1. Vvoter: A PowerPoint add-in with a variety of options and features to customize your presentation to include audience interactivity. The simplicity of the design encourages audience participation, which will lead to improved attentiveness and retention of the presentation material.
Features:
- Anyone with an internet capable device can participate
- Instant tabulation of responses
- Increases participation and attentiveness
- PowerPoint add-in uses menus familiar to users
- Gives meeting hosts a quick and easy way to gather feedback from their clients
- Text-based input tools stimulate discussions
http://optiontechnologies.com/products/optionpower-add-ons/virtual-base-station/
2. Poll Everywhere: Uses a simple text messaging system that allows you to create and administer polls directly to your audience. Results can be viewed in real-time, and audience responses and charts can be embedded straight into your PowerPoint or Keynote presentation.
Features:
- Selection of plans designed to match your specific needs
- Audience can vote not only through text messaging, but also via Twitter and the web
- International capabilities
- Creating polls is extremely easy
- Charts update live as responses are received
- PollEv Presenter app allows for PowerPoint integration on both PCs and Macs
http://www.polleverywhere.com/
3. Mentimeter.com: An interactive voting system that allows you to create questions with response options and receive feedback instantaneously. Your audience can access surveys by visiting a mobile website where they enter an ID associated with the question. Results are shown in real-time so that you can incorporate your questions and answers into any presentation.
Features:
- Supported on most mobile phones
- Immediate feedback
- Unlimited number of voters and questions
- Mobile website is extremely user-friendly
- Can be used as a business tool, teaching instrument, or for personal use
4. ParticiPoll: A clicker-free audience polling system for PowerPoint that allows any web-enabled device to participate. You get to choose your own voting address where you can then send your audience to cast their votes. When everyone has voted, click to the next page in your presentation to display the results of your poll.
Features:
- Your first month is free
- Poll results are displayed in your PowerPoint presentation
- Setup is done in two simple steps
- Anyone with a web-enabled device can participate
5. Kindling: Used to discuss ideas, solve problems, and pursue opportunities. This software enables you to align conversations with their corresponding topics to ensure that ideas are not lost throughout your organization. You can start and direct conversations to whomever you desire within any subset of your organization where you can then evaluate responses and promote the most innovative concepts and ideas.
Features:
- Sparks creativity and innovation by encouraging employees to share and discuss ideas
- Improves the workplace by assisting in the creation of new products and ideas
- Engages employees to ask questions and solve problems
- Simplistic design means no training is required
- Optimized for smartphone and tablet use
- Allows for voting and commenting on topics and discussions
6. Qualtrics: Allows you to capture customer insights from your smartphone or tablet at any time, online or offline. Create surveys to gain information on customer satisfaction, market research and concept testing, employee feedback, course and professor evaluation, and more.
Features:
- Assortment of visually appealing themes to choose from
- Surveys can be created specifically for the platform your respondent is using – smartphone, tablet, or desktop
- Great for Customer, Market, or Academic insight
- User-friendly design
- 70+ question types
7. Learning Catalytics: A “bring your own device” engagement and assessment system designed specifically for students and classrooms. Students can interact using their laptop, smartphone, or tablet to answer open-ended and multiple choice questions created by you. These results can then be used to measure performance, create peer groups, and analyze student understanding.
Features:
- Automatically generate groups based on student response patterns
- Create open-ended questions that ask for numerical, algebraic, textual, or graphical responses
- Assess your students in real-time
- Enable students to review questions after class as a study aid
- Instructor accounts are free, and student accounts very affordable at $20/year
https://learningcatalytics.com/
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